Hiemis – Zothique

Hiemis – ZothiqueLabel: NoctivagantFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: USAReleased:2022Style: Drone, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Dungeon Synth, Neo-Classical Zothique (Clark Ashton Smith)«He who has trod the shadows of ZothiqueAnd looked upon the coal-red sun oblique,Henceforth returns to no anterior land,But haunts a later coastWhere cities crumble in the black sea-sandAnd dead gods drink the brine. He who has known the gardens of ZothiqueWere bleed the fruits torn by the simorgh’s beak,Savors no fruit of greener hemispheres:In arbors uttermost,In sunset cycles of the sombering years,He sips an amaranth wine. He who has loved the wild girls of ZothiqueShall not come back a gentler love to seek,Nor know the vampire’s from the lover’s kiss:For…